Description :
This module provides a framework for generating v3 UUIDs (Universally UniqueIdentifiers, also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers). A UUID is 128bits long, and is guaranteed to be different from all other UUIDs/GUIDsgenerated until 3400 CE.

UUIDs were originally used in the Network Computing System (NCS) and later inthe Open Software Foundation\'s (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment.Currently many different technologies rely on UUIDs to provide unique identityfor various software components. Microsoft COM/DCOM for instance, uses GUIDsvery extensively to uniquely identify classes, applications and componentsacross network-connected systems.

The algorithm for UUID generation, used by this extension, is described in theInternet Draft \"UUIDs and GUIDs\" by Paul J. Leach and Rich Salz (see RFC 4122).It provides a reasonably efficient and reliable framework for generating UUIDsand supports fairly high allocation rates - 10 million per second per machine -and therefore is suitable for identifying both extremely short-lived and verypersistent objects on a given system as well as across the network.

This module provides several methods to create a UUID. In all methods,&lt namespace&gt is a UUID and &lt name&gt is a free form string.

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